Sleep quality and chronic pain in community dwelling older adults: preliminary results

Background: The natural process of human aging causes biopsychosocial alterations, which can trigger chronic pain and poor sleep quality in older adults. Considering the high prevalence and possible association between these two clinical conditions, special attention from public health policies is necessary to provide quality aging. Objective: To verify if there is an association between chronic pain and sleep quality among older adults in the community. Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional study on the association of chronic pain with the sleep quality among older people in the community. Participants were evaluated using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); Visual Analog Pain scale; questionnaires of sociodemographic and clinical data, assessment of cognitive impairment through the Mini Mental State Examination, and anthropometric assessments. The data were submitted to descriptive statistics. The means between the groups of older people with and without chronic pain were compared using the Student's t test for independent samples and Pearson's correlation coefficient (r) was used to analyze the association of PSQI with pain intensity. Results: In total, 51 older women were included, with a mean age of 70 ± 8 years. The majority had a low level of education (52.9%), low financial income (64.7%), and chronic pain (56.9%). It was found that the older adults with chronic pain presented worse sleep quality when compared those without chronic pain and a moderate (r=0.595) and significant (p<0.01) correlation between sleep quality and the intensity of chronic pain was observed. Conclusion: Older adults in the community with chronic pain present worse sleep quality when compared to the older adults without pain. There is a strong correlation between the intensity of chronic pain and sleep quality in older adults; the greater the intensity of pain, the worse the sleep quality

Use of Pesticides in the Agricultural Production and its Impacts in the Health of the Agricultural Worker in Goiás (2010 the 2020)

Os altos índices de produção agrícola alcançados na região Centro-Oeste e no estado de Goiás demandam o uso intenso de agrotóxicos, entretanto deve-se considerar os efeitos nocivos desses produtos para a saúde humana.&nbsp; O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma discussão da utilização de agrotóxicos na produção agrícola em Goiás e seus impactos na saúde do trabalhador rural no período de 2010 a 2020 com ênfase no município de Anápolis. Foi realizado um estudo descritivo com levantamento de informações junto às bases de dados governamentais e levantamento bibliográfico de artigos publicados sobre produção agrícola, agrotóxicos e intoxicações. Nos anos de 2010 a 2020 o estado de Goiás apresentou um considerável crescimento na produção agrícola e nas vendas de produtos agrotóxicos. O aumento significativo do consumo de agrotóxicos está diretamente associado ao aumento de incidência de intoxicações no Estado. O crescente número de notificações é preocupante, uma vez que o modo e a extensão com que os agrotóxicos são utilizados têm impactado na saúde dos trabalhadores rurais provocando efeitos que se manifestam de diferentes formas e intensidades ao longo de suas vidas, causando doenças, alterações genéticas, fisiológicas e comportamentais, e em muitos casos com evolução para óbitos.&nbsp;Abstract: The high reached indices of agricultural production in the Center-West and the state of Goiás demand the intense use of pesticides. This means that also it deserves prominence the harmful effect of these products the health human being.&nbsp; The objective of this article is to present a quarrel of the use of pesticides in the agricultural production in Goiás and its impacts in the health of the agricultural worker in the period of 2010 the 2020 with emphasis in the city of Anápolis. The research is of the descriptive type, with data-collecting, whose information had been gotten by consultations to the database of the information systems and became fullfilled a bibliographical article analysis published on agricultural production, pesticides and intoxications. In the years the 2010 2020 state of Goiás presented growth in the agricultural production and vendas of pesticides products. The significant increase of the consumption of pesticides is associated with the increase of the number of incidence of intoxications. The increasing number of notifications is preoccupying, a time that the way and the extension with that the pesticides are used has impactado in the health of the agricultural workers provoking effect that if reveal of different forms and intensities throughout its lives, causing genetic, physiological illnesses, alterations and mannering, and in many cases with evolution for deaths

Resumos concluídos - Bioquímica

Resumos concluídos - Bioquímic

Resumos concluídos - Bioquímica

Resumos concluídos - Bioquímic

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved